Re: 3D-acceleration not working on old iMac

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Joseph Jezak wrote:
>> (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics controller detected.
>> (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4750 "GP", version 4, foundry UMC, class 0,
>> revision 0x01.
>> (--) ATI(0): PCI bus interface detected.
>> (--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected.
> 
> You have a Mach64, not a Rage128.

Really? I mean: sure?
I'm puzzled because this is what lspci tells me:

imac ~ # lspci | grep "VGA"
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro
215GP (rev 5c)

> It's possible to use drm with that
> card, but it's a real pain.

I read that I could use the useflag "insecure-drivers" on a german
howto, if anybody can read it: Chapter 3.2
http://www.gentoo.de/doc/de/dri-howto.xml#doc_chap3

> The patches for it should be merged into
> Modular X, you should probably look into upgrading to modular:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

Because I don't like using ~* I'd like to know if there is a difference
in Mach64-support on Xorg 6.8.2 and 7.0.
And... you know, it takes a while to compile Xorg on this old iMac, so I
don't like to more experiments than necessary. ;)

Thanks so far
Jan
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